It's just like the photo!!!

This image (from Rupunzel) symbolizes the themes of Great Expectations in many ways. Pip’s only real main goal in life is to marry Estella. But she is locked in her castle by the old witch who is her mother. I’m actually pretty sure that Rupunzel was based off this story, but with a happier ending.

as for the survey...

I've been unable to get to the survey, but I'll try again tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I'm giving up :[

That reminds me of the time...

While reading through Great Expectations, I couldn’t help but think how much it seemed like reading Oliver Twist all over again. One reason for this might be that it was also written by Charles Dickens, so it has very similar imagery and the exact same time period. But there are other similarities too.

Dickens seems to be stuck on certain ideas. Both Pip and Oliver are young and childish. They both came from poverty, Oliver more so than Pip because he was an orphan. They were also both eventually adopted by rich people that they helped. This is supposed to be what happened to Dickens, but it gets old. Also, both stories have sort of dark and depressing themes. Pip is guilty, resentful, jealous, and ashamed, while generally bad things happen to Oliver. Also, by the end of Oliver Twist and up to this point in G.E. I sort of hate the main characters. They are both dishonest and whiney, like I would be too if I was in their situation, but it’s still not an endearing quality.

How Great Expectations is nothing like my life

When the end of chapter nine talks about iron and gold, thorns and flowers, I believe that this is symbolic of pips transformation as a character. The metals represent pip because he is going to be apprenticed to a blacksmith. It kind of shows how he is turning from something common and mundane, like iron, to something rare and precious, like gold. Because apparently pip means bud, the thorns and flowers also represent him. Maybe it represents how his life gets better, or maybe how he blooms or something. I can’t really peg what’s different about pip because honestly, this book is all kind of blending together for me.

If I had a personal life turn around moment it would probably be around the beginning of the sixth grade, when I figured out I actually had to do my work and make an effort in school in school and stuff. But I think the main reason I think of school is that it’s hard to think of my life as a chain. It’s defiantly more of a timeline. With school, it’s easy because each year is a link. I don’t know how it shaped my life though. How do you even shape something with a chain? I don’t know. I just have problems with the chain metaphor.